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...there could be no further moves toward democracy in Hong Kong without Beijing's approval?a hard-line approach that China would dearly love to apply to Taiwan, too. Unhappily for the Communists, Taiwan?with its own army, constitution and democratically elected government?has a proud history of remaining defiant in the face of threats from Beijing. China's reaction to how Taiwan runs its affairs, says the secretary-general of the President's office, Chiou I-jen, "is not our concern." Brave?but perhaps unrealistic?words...
This confrontation made him unpopular with some students, but Lurie wears this, like his armband, as a badge of courage. Politically, he wears his heart on his sleeve. Outside of the Science Center last week, Lurie bore his defiant message even more explicitly: “If the Harvard Salient is afraid of him, he must be doing something right...
Albano could even be prosecuted, although the defiant mayor says the FDA couldn't stand the political fallout. "It would be a serious mistake to prosecute an elected official," he says. "If they're going to prosecute me, they better prosecute all those senior citizens on the bus to Canada too." --By Nathan Thornburgh
...synagogues that killed 25 people. The attacks, for which al-Qaeda affiliated groups have claimed responsibility are a reminder both of the group's resilience, but also of its new form. And the fact that Thursday's targets were British served a dual purpose: They sent a defiant message to Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George Bush, meeting in London, that al-Qaeda has survived the U.S.-led onslaught; and they also issue a violent challenge to the status quo in Turkey, a relentlessly secular Muslim state affiliated with NATO and allied with Israel, and in the process...
...appear to be too arrogant to say, 'I'm wrong.' That sounds more like Stonewall Jackson than Jesse Jackson." REV. AL SHARPTON, calling on Howard Dean to apologize for his remark that he wants to be the candidate for "guys with Confederate flags in their pickups." Dean was initially defiant but apologized the next...